Town comparison · Edenderry vs Geashill

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Edenderry or Geashill?

Both towns measured at town level, not the wider Eircode area, on the same 52 figures: prices, schools, amenities, social life, commute, affluence and safety.

Edenderry, Co. Offaly · R45 · 7,505 people | Geashill, Co. Offaly · R35 · 392 people

Edenderry is the stronger town on the data. It leads on 4 of the 7 dimensions to Geashill’s 2, with 1 level.

Edenderry leads on
schools & amenitiespublic transportaffordabilityaccess to its nearest city
Geashill leads on
affluenceeducation levels
221911

Edenderry aheadlevel or not comparableGeashill ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
EdenderryGeashill
iEdenderry sits in R45, Geashill in R35. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it’s actually measured at. The town ahead on a row is the one in green. Scores and percentages are charted against a true 0 to 100 scale; every other row is charted against the larger of the two towns, so the bars compare but don’t imply a ceiling.

Outlines are each town’s CSO Small Areas — the exact footprint every figure is measured over.

Edenderry
Geashill

Size

TOWN · census

Resident population at the 2022 CSO census, summed over the Small Areas that make up each town. Not scored: a bigger town isn’t a better one, it just explains why the counts below differ.

7,505
Population
392

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€280k
Median sale pricelower is better
€304k
Edenderry leads
€230k – €322k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€220k – €335k
269
Sales (24m)
29
+13.9%
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
28.3%
New-build share
N/A

Schools, health & amenities

TOWN · counts

Facilities in and around each town — each counted once, for the town it’s closest to. Bigger towns naturally score higher — read alongside population.

5 prim · 2 sec
Schools
1 prim · 0 sec
Edenderry leads
Edenderry · 7 schools (largest first)
St Mary's Secondary School Secondary
1,015 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · CATHOLIC
Oaklands Community College Secondary
804 pupils · 50% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONALDEIS
Scoil Bhríde Primary School Primary
506 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Edenderry Convent N S Primary
415 pupils · Catholic
St Patrick's National School Primary
186 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Gaelscoil Éadan Doire Primary
73 pupils · CatholicDEIS
Edenderry 2 N S Primary
47 pupils · Church Of Ireland
Geashill · 1 schools (largest first)
Geashill 1 N S Primary
137 pupils · Catholic
7
Creches
0
Edenderry leads
N/A
GP practices
N/A
1
Pharmacies
0
Edenderry leads
0
Hospitals
0
15
Bus stops
2
Edenderry leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
6
Gyms & leisure
1
Edenderry leads
7
Parks & playgrounds
1
Edenderry leads
18
Sports pitches
3
Edenderry leads

Social life

TOWN · counts

Places to eat, drink and go out in and around each town — each counted once, for the town it’s closest to. The residents per venue row is the fairer read — raw counts just track town size, so a big town wins by being big.

4
Restaurants
0
Edenderry leads
2
Cafés
0
Edenderry leads
7
Pubs & bars
2
Edenderry leads
2
Takeaways
0
Edenderry leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
500
Residents per venuelower is better
196
Geashill leads

Day-to-day

TOWN · counts

The errands you run without thinking about them. Same caveat — read the residents-per-service row alongside the counts.

5
Supermarkets
0
Edenderry leads
4
Convenience shops
1
Edenderry leads
0
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
0
1
Banks
0
Edenderry leads
1
Post offices
1
0
Hairdressers
0
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
3
Filling stations
1
Edenderry leads
3
EV charging
0
Edenderry leads
1
Library & community centre
0
Edenderry leads
417
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
131
Geashill leads

Commute by car

TOWN · from centre

Drive time from the town centre to each city centre — typical off-peak, with an estimated weekday rush hour. OSRM road routing.

57m · ~90 rush
Dublinlower is better
82m · ~115 rush
Edenderry leads
111m · ~135 rush
Galwaylower is better
99m · ~125 rush
Geashill leads
122m · ~140 rush
Limericklower is better
107m · ~125 rush
Geashill leads
122m · ~135 rush
Waterfordlower is better
112m · ~125 rush
Geashill leads
161m · ~185 rush
Corklower is better
146m · ~170 rush
Geashill leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-11
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-2.7
Geashill leads
Edenderry · 6 EDs, poorest → richest
-13Edenderry UrbanDisadvantaged
-10Edenderry UrbanDisadvantaged
-6Edenderry RuralBelow average
-5MonasterorisBelow average
-1Edenderry RuralBelow average
-1MonasterorisBelow average
Geashill · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-5GeashillBelow average
0GeashillBelow average
21.4%
Third-level educated
30.9%
Geashill leads
22.5%
Professional class
36.1%
Geashill leads
17.0%
Unemploymentlower is better
7.7%
Geashill leads
64.7%
Owner-occupier
86.4%
Geashill leads
21.5%
Private rental
7.6%
11.7%
Social housing (LA)
4.4%

Liveability & safety

AREA · R45 / R35

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (EdenderryR45, GeashillR35); safety & crime are the Laois/Offaly Garda division — so they read identically for both towns.

61/100
Quality of Life
59/100
Edenderry leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (R45 / R35) from official data — Garda crime, CSO income & census, OPW flood, EPA water, and transport/healthcare/broadband coverage. Refreshed quarterly. The dashed line is each town’s overall score (that average) — dimensions to its right beat the average, to its left fall short. Two towns can share a score with a very different mix.

EdenderryGeashillOverall (avg)
Safety61405940
Affordability9596
Infrastructure8858
Family7377
Education3034
Environment8269
Economic1837
020406080100020406080100
#77
National ranklower is better
#85
Edenderry leads
#2
County ranklower is better
#3
Edenderry leads
40/100
Safety
40/100
90.8
Crime / 1,000
90.8

Affluence range

Pobal HP deprivation index, published per Electoral Division, so the spread shows the town’s poorest to richest ED. A town that is a single ED shows one mark, no range.

Edenderry Disadvantaged-11.0
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Edenderry Urban -13 (least affluent) → Monasteroris -1 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Geashill Below average-2.7
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Geashill -5 (least affluent) → Geashill 0 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.

How accurate is this, and at what level?

TOWN
Prices, amenities and commute are exact and town-specific.

Prices come from individual PPR sales inside the town’s Small-Area boundary; schools, GPs, transport, gyms and parks are counted the same way; commute is routed from the town centre.

ED
Affluence, profile and tenure are Electoral-Division level.

Published per Electoral Division and averaged across the town’s EDs, with a range where the town spans several.

AREA
Liveability and safety are wider-area, not the town.

Quality of life and rank are per Eircode routing key; safety and crime are the Garda division (Laois/Offaly), coarser than a town, so two towns in the same county read the same.

Population growth isn’t shown: the 2016 and 2022 censuses don’t use the same Small Areas, and the areas that were re-cut are the ones that grew, so a like-for-like comparison understates growth badly. Rent and yield are still too sparse to show per town. Built from 26 CSO Small Areas.

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